Presentations

Presentation tools
including Powerpoint, Slideshare, Voicethread, Prezi, ...

See also the Video page for information about creating screencasts as an alternative to slides.

• Browser-based Presentation Tools
  • Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/
    • a quick place to share your presentations publicly
    • http://www.slideshare.net/edtechdev
  • Google Docs http://docs.google.com/
    • Part of Google Docs includes a powerpoint-like presentation tool
    • http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/googledocs.htm
  • Voicethread http://voicethread.com/
    • Voicethread lets you add narration/comments over the slides
    • What is Voicethread presentation
    • http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/06/100-ways-to-use-voicethread-in.html
    • http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/voicethread.htm
    • Sample presentations created in my class last semester
      • How People Learn: http://voicethread.com/share/1077804/
      • Service Learning: http://voicethread.com/share/1059638/
      • Animations vs. Diagrams: http://voicethread.com/share/1089985/
      • Threshold Concepts: http://voicethread.com/share/1089353/
      • Backward Design: http://voicethread.com/share/1092809/
      • Test-Wiseness: http://voicethread.com/share/1090785/
  • Prezi http://prezi.com/
    • Essentially you create a large poster that you zoom across
    • http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/prezi.htm
    • Sample presentation on visual thinking
• http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/
  • Other presentations about various other tools that can be integrated into instruction
• Making better presentations:
  • http://www.presentationzen.com/
  • http://blog.duarte.com/book/
  • http://www.beyondbullets.com/2007/10/bbp-2007-now-av.html
  • Scott Berkun - http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Public-Speaker-Scott-Berkun/dp/0596801998
  • Edward Tufte - http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
  • http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/05/ten-no-nos-of-teaching-with-projector.html
• Death by powerpoint
  • Comedy routine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpvgfmEU2Ck
    • Updated, longer version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbSPPFYxx3o
  • Powerpoint is a popular target on Dilbert
    • http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-06-25/
    • http://www.few.vu.nl/~frankh/dilbert/ppt-poisoning.gif
    • http://www.few.vu.nl/~frankh/dilbert/powerpoint.gif
  • http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2009/10/18/comic-sans-diagram/